This individual let me belly crawl up to minimum focussing distance (about 12 feet with the 500mm f/4 II) for some full-frame head-and-shoulder shots. It stayed there for a whopping 5 minutes while I tried a variety of angles and camera settings. Here I stopped down to ensure enough depth of field on the whole subject.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/400s., f/10, ISO 400, natural light, handheld (elbows on ground), minor bill clean-up via patch tool, tamed a white hot spot via burn tool, darkened pupil.
White looks very good and BG is superb. On my monitor the eye looks like it could be lightened very slightly to make the pupil/iris difference more noticeable.
Hi Dan, great close up showing oodles of detail, and good choice at F/10 to make it work. Nice and sharp, and I like the hint of sand on the beak. Nicely posed against a killer BG too.
Hi Daniel - Another killer image! The layered Bg colors look awesome. The detail showing the fine patterns in the feathers are very well done. IQ top-notch.
TFS
Hennie
Stunning Dan, love close-ups with lot's of detail. I should be try to add some in my gallery. The huge sharp eye make it for me, excellent two tone colours in the BG, lovely work.
Detail is OTS, very exciting to get so close.
beautiful, images like this can only add to the current knowledge of the colors and intricate details of birds.
Full Frame Semipalmated Plover Portrait.
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